Press Briefing on Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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12-Jun-2019 00:39:24

Press briefing on the 12th Session of the Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP12)

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Speakers: Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, Global Advocacy Adviser on Social Inclusion for Sightsavers and Member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the UN; Yetnebersh Nigussie, disability rights activist and lawyer, and 2017 Alternative Nobel Prize Recipient; Liisa Kauppinen, former President of the World Federation of the Deaf and 2013 Awardee of the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights; and María Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility.